According to today's Mining-Journal, folks can't get enough of the Pictured Rocks in Munising -- which were featured prominently in Rock's "Born Free" video last year.

Mining-Journal: National Park Service statistics for Pictured Rocks showed August visitation up 43.47 percent over last year. Those figures followed a 31.79 percent increase in June and 14.81 percent increase in July.

At the National Park Service-U.S. Forest Service Interagency Visitor Center in Munising, which services Pictured Rocks and the Hiawatha National Forest, it was so packed with visitors at times staff found it hard to answer the phone.

After the "Born Free" video made its debut, Pictured Rocks Tours, a tour-boat service not affiliated with Kid Rock or the National Park Service, put up 35 billboards across the state with cruise boats near the site with insets of Rock.

Try the glass bottom boats at Munising - very cool! Plus the Shipwreck museum at Whitefish Point - the bell off of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Lots of neat things in Michigan - 8 mile ain’t one of them though (war zone).

FRegards,
PrairieDawg

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posted on 09/16/2011 7:46:03 PM PDT
by PrairieDawg
(Who is John Galt? And who is Barack Obama?)

>Kid Rock is also a conservative who made several trips to visit our troops overseas immediately after 9-11....<

More than 5 times actually. I have a friend who works at the USO at LAX and he told me Kid Rock has never said no. When I talked to him, he was busy confirming the dates for the cast of SONS OF ANARCHY to visit American GI’s stationed in the Middle East.

Well, I’m glad to have met this Kid Rock. Never heard of him before, but then I’m old. I’ve been to Oscoda, Mich. Band played at Wurtsmith AFB. I think that’s the only place we went in Mich. on purpose. “Oscoda will never be confused with Las Vegas”, as one reporter who went on that trip commented. He wrote a funny piece for the Lynchburg,VA paper about his experience going on a “road” trip with the band.

I've yet to get to Munising, but I've been to Whitefish Point. Great area if I'm not on a ship in a storm.

8 Mile actually turns into a dirt road east of me. It runs all the way out to the country just north of Ann Arbor. Most of it's in a nice area. The Detroit areas are rough in spots, but it's not what I'd call a war zone. I used 8 mile to get from 75 to Van Dyke when I had to go from Downtown to Macomb. I wanted to avoid 6 mile and Van Dyke. THAT's a bad area.

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posted on 09/16/2011 10:22:07 PM PDT
by Darren McCarty
(I am not lead by any politician. I am my own leader.)

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